Comments on: Dial 111 If you’re not quite ill enough to call 999 http://www.parentsoutloud.com/dial-111-if-youre-not-quite-ill-enough-to-call-999/ Helping provide a voice for Parents Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Neville Squamous http://www.parentsoutloud.com/dial-111-if-youre-not-quite-ill-enough-to-call-999/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Neville Squamous Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:00:34 +0000 http://www.parentsoutloud.com/?p=799#comment-448 This reminds me of the story some US news channels ran when Obama announced he would be drinking Bud Light with the policeman and professor involved in that recent 'scandal'. "Bud is owned by a dutch company!" they moaned, "Why doesn't he drink American beer, the unpatriotic fool!" Just because you don't like the current UK government (and I think that's completely justified by the way, theyre rubbish) doesn't mean that everything they do is wrong. I think this is a good idea - it will reduce the load on 999 operators with a self-funding alternative which can put callers through to 999 if necessary. If it is true that 111 results in 'phantom' or accidental calls then yes, they should use a different number, but in principal this is a great idea. This reminds me of the story some US news channels ran when Obama announced he would be drinking Bud Light with the policeman and professor involved in that recent ‘scandal’. “Bud is owned by a dutch company!” they moaned, “Why doesn’t he drink American beer, the unpatriotic fool!”

Just because you don’t like the current UK government (and I think that’s completely justified by the way, theyre rubbish) doesn’t mean that everything they do is wrong. I think this is a good idea – it will reduce the load on 999 operators with a self-funding alternative which can put callers through to 999 if necessary. If it is true that 111 results in ‘phantom’ or accidental calls then yes, they should use a different number, but in principal this is a great idea.

]]> By: DP http://www.parentsoutloud.com/dial-111-if-youre-not-quite-ill-enough-to-call-999/comment-page-1/#comment-350 DP Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:16:23 +0000 http://www.parentsoutloud.com/?p=799#comment-350 I'm not entirely sure what the issue is. If it is a real emergency then you call 999, but even if you dial 111 they will still be able to send an ambulance if necessary. I’m not entirely sure what the issue is. If it is a real emergency then you call 999, but even if you dial 111 they will still be able to send an ambulance if necessary.

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